Thing #1

Okay, so I’ve got my headphones on and I’m ready to expand my journey in lifelong education.

Listening to the “7 & ½ Habits online tutorial” hit home on a few different levels. I would like to begin with what has proven to be my weakest attribute of becoming a lifelong learner and that is setting a goal and accomplishing it. However, accomplishing my goals has not always been my greatest challenge; it has proven of late to be the proverbial chink in my armor. Goals seem to be one of the most important aspects of success in life as well as in the world of education. We as people tend to lack a sense of direction, and the main reason is a deficit of proper goals. Not only does having a goal give someone a destination to strive towards, it also gives that person some sense accomplishment and self-confidence upon completion of that goal, which in my mind, are essential motivators of success.

Aside from habit 7 & ½ (playing and having fun), my unfailing knack to have confidence in myself is most assuredly above all else my greatest strength. I’m not real sure where it comes from, but my self-belief has never been something that I had to reinforce. This may seem somewhat contradictory to my above rant on “setting and accomplishing goals” leads to self-confidence, but in my situation I found them to be independent of each other.